Larry Desjardin

President of Modular Methods consulting, focused on open modular instrument systems such as VXI, PXI, or AXIe. Author of Test Cafe blog at EDN.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Look at all the 🇺🇸 trade that's now happening without the Jones Act in effect.

And the Jones Act fleet is still fully booked. This is all extra shipping, from Americans to Americans, that's happening just because government got out of the way.

[Larry Desjardin @modularconx]

@hannahhill_sc @AAGDhillon Just to be clear: in 2025 (Denver's preferred year for comparisons) the homicide rate in Denver was 5.2 per 100K, while the state in total (including Denver!) was 3.4. Doesn't seem having the ban is superior to not having the ban.

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@ColinTrump1 @AWRHawkins @BreitbartNews Yes. See my comment.

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@AWRHawkins @BreitbartNews 3% is for all rifles, thus "the category of guns that include 'assault weapons'". Actual AR-15 homicides is lower. My own analysis estimated it around 1%.

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@Osint613 Buy those Swiss Army knives in stock NOW!

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@SeanPaige Letter reposted on Keep Routt Wild FB page:

https://t.co/r8ShCAR5GZ

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@maziehirono I’m already sold on it; you don’t have to oversell it.

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@JustinWolfers

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@BrentScher @MaryMargOlohan He did that so no one would recognize him.

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@scottlincicome @Knightwolfbr In some cases, the foreign exporter lowered their prices. Imagine the uproar if we started sending refund checks to Chinese companies! 3 parties involved- impossible to calculate tax incidence, so just refund who legally paid.

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@JustinWolfers 3 parties involved: The US Corp paid the tariff, but some of that may show up as lower prices from the foreign exporter, lower profits for the US Corp, and/or higher prices for the consumer. It's infeasible to compensate all 3. Imagine the ruckus if refunds went to China!

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@buttermaker45 @MeatEaterTV Ha! I was going to say pronghorn #1, then either elk or moose. My wife and I love pronghorn, but many people don't favor it. Their loss.

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@seandparnell @mattyglesias Agree. Otherwise the refunds for any illegal tax struck down by courts would be ensnarled in endless debates about tax incidence.

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@MatthewWielicki I like Bill Maher, but this is an unforced error. How could nobody spot this gaffe?

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@nicksortor My shock is how many Dems have apparently become free trade capitalists. That's a win too!

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@nicksortor No - this is a big win for USA and Canada. The optimal tariff policy is to unilaterally and immediately bring all tariffs to zero.

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@pumpwoman @nicksortor HEROES.

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@sciencegirl Moon landings. NASA is so confident in American exceptionalism that it left the Lunar Rover, costing billions of dollars, unattended on the moon with the keys still in the ignition.

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@JesseAPaul Aren't property taxes an example of captive pricing?

Where does this end?

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@JesseAPaul Have you ever seen wine prices at a restaurant vs. retail? We're going to go after those too, or why not?